03709_0050: A Dead Convict Don't Cost Nothin'

Alabama

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stoppin' that. It's got to whar it takes some fer me ever' day—I think it does my heart good. Won't you come in an' have one? It ain't th' bes' in th' world, but it's good shinny.

"I wish when you git back that you'd ask them Gover'mint folks 'bout what they go'nter do fer th' ol' people. I keep hearin' talk of it, but if they don't rush up, it ain't go'nter do me no good. These welfare women'll have me starved to death 'fore my pension gits to me."

8/8/39

S.J.